Podcasts That Transport You

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Curated by...

Asa Merritt (he/him)

Why did you choose this theme?There’s a certain wonderful shorthand where pitch-perfect audio takes us right to a place, the same way smell can take us right to a memory. And when we go somewhere new, we meet not only new individuals but new communities. These five podcasts are favs of mine; their locales are part of the very fabric of the show. Enjoy!

PODCAST PICKS:Click on the podcast art to listen 👂

This Audible title is a fictional project about mental health and the contemporary church that was recorded on-location in Dayton, Ohio. Big studio projects rarely take their stories out of the studio. When they do, it shows.

Valley HeatPete The Pool GuyA brain-child of the wildly talented comedian Christian Dougey, this mockumentary fiction podcast chronicles the dramas of Doug Dougey, an insurance salesman who lives in Burbank, California. Each personality in his suburb is expertly drawn, and there’s a true sense of immersion.

Townsizing

The Unique Challenges of Living in the Arctic Circle

Located in the Arctic Circle, Utqiagvik, Alaska is the Northernmost town in America. Host Anne Helen Petersen speaks with Kawahine Danner, a local Inupiaq artist, about the misconceptions about growing up in a remote Arctic village, as well as some of the more unique challenges

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like insanely expensive grocery store runs, or a polar bear walking through your neighborhood.

Welcome to ProvincetownThe HustleIndie podcast veteran Mitra Kaboli’s latest project, Welcome to Provincetown, garnered critical acclaim when it dropped last year, and rightly so. The show’s very point of entry is the town, and in its quest to find Provincetown’s soul, wanders through a constellation of fascinating residents and visitors. The field recording is exceptional.

Rumble StripMary Lake Sheep SlaughtererMary Lake is a sheep farmer and shearer, and itinerant slaughterer. She is a tall, muscular woman in bib overalls and a baseball hat with dangly earrings she carved out of a ram’s horn. She wears a chain around her waist with a scabbard full of knives. And she loves sheep, which is one reason she participates in their slaughter. This is a story about where food comes from.

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COMMUNITY:

🎤This week in Podcast The Newsletter: Lauren Passell writes: "Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie’s The Dream has returned, hallelujah, for a season about the self-improvement industry and life coaches..."

👔The Men in Blazers Media Network has opened a new studio in the U.K. that will produce and distribute a new daybreak podcast. Early Kick Off will showcase a rotating cast of the best in British audio talent, launching with host Sammy James of the award-winning Fulhamish podcast. 

🎙️Ursa Short Fiction co-host and editor-at-large Deesha Philyaw has just signed a seven-figure deal for her next two books. In the last season of Ursa Short Fiction, Deesha spoke with journalist and novelist Dawnie Walton about the making of her first short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. 

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PODCAST NEWS from Podnews:

• A simple, straightforward way to promote your podcast? Embedding your audio in an email — so it plays right in the email app. Podnews tested using the HTML audio tag in email.

• The Australian Podcast Awards shared the current top 20 for the listener’s choice vote. There’s still time to vote for your favorite.

• Sony Music is set to lay off “a significant percentage” of its podcast division, according to a report in Bloomberg. The company also plans to cancel High Low with EmRata, its celebrity podcast with Emily Ratajkowski.

SPOTLIGHT:

IncubationIncubation is a new podcast that traces the history of humanity through viruses.Host Jacob Goldstein takes us on a journey with leading medical researchers, doctors, and historians to trace key moments in our battles with viruses, breakthroughs in vaccine research, and the impact of vaccination campaigns.

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